Rock Auto Cheapy Dizzy, ...and the answer is $100 gets you <2 years Options

[VavAlephVav]

So just about 3 months shy of 2 years ago I bought the cheapest distributor I could get on RockAuto because that's all I could do at the time.
It was about $100 and I figured it would be ok if it didn't last as long as the $150 one, it can't be that bad right?
WPS this one here

http://www.rockauto.com/en/moreinfo.php?pk...307&jsn=348

Lately I've been going to work at a place 30 miles away. We start at 6am and I've been running it pretty hard in order to get there on time. (85+ the whole way )
Today when I went to leave work it wouldn't start. Checked the usual stuff and then asked blinky and he said Code 12, no signal from the dizzy.
I ohmed the cam sensor pickup coils and found 250 ohms on one and 13.4 MILLION ohms on the other. Well, isn't that special.

So there you have it. The $100 Chinese dizzy might get you a year and a half.

[Bitter]

Over at Toyota Nation someone mounted the igniter from the distributor externally inside the lid of the airbox so it would be kept cooled and I think also stuck a heatsink on the transistor or whatever, they reported that since that mod the cheap **** one has been working fine vs failing intermittently when hot. Some food for thought.